Quarantine-(ish) week 13-ish

So there is currently ONE active COVID case on the island of Maui, and because of that fact we are starting to slowly loosen up our strict quarantine. Still no travel or stores if we can avoid them or restaurants, and we wear masks when in public places (and only Jeff and I go, eg to the grocery store, the kids stay home). BUT…we sat on the porch and had a beer with our next door neighbor last week while her 3-year-old grandson played in the driveway with the kids. We met friends at the beach and went swimming. Luke and I have been surfing with our neighbors and he went to play with them Sunday after. Doing these things outside is making me more comfortable, and only with a few people we know well. It’s weird coming out of strict lock-down. My first goal is to keep everyone safe but I also feel that the kids are suffering from a social perspective so trying to balance all that out. Plus ONE case on Maui…if we were somewhere with more cases I’d likely keep everything status quo.

Kids got treats for the cats on the beach walk and had the best time giving them something special. We have a beautiful and skinny cat that keeps showing up in our yard, Jeff named him Captian Zeebra Pants, we call him CZP for short, which is really fun to say out loud. We got a bag of cat food and what we put out is gone in the morning, kids are hoping to get to be friendly with CZP.

And Luke’s learning to surf. Lots of enthusiasm. I keep an eagle eye on him and we generally go with others so I’m feeling like it’s very safe.

Other than that…I’m working, Jeff’s doing a great job taking care of everything else, we’re hiking as a family, kids are reading to their grandparents and writing letters and doing some math, but there’s also some screen time and dolls and legos and robots and drawing and stuffed animals and bike rides and tag and hide and seek and board games and listening to all sorts of stories via Alexa…which reminds me of my story records when I was little…oh how I loved listening to those…

All is well, so grateful.

XOXO